Reinventing Myself in a Changing Journalistic Landscape

[THIS PIECE ORIGINALLY APPEARED ON THE HUFFINGTON POST SITE ON JANUARY 11, 2008.]

Reinventing Myself in a Changing Journalistic Landscape

byNancy Cleeland

Six months ago, I took a buyout from a shrinking Los Angeles Times and wrote about it here. I didn’t know what would come next. Certainly, I couldn’t have predicted where that step would take me.

Now I’m across the country at an influential Washington D.C. think tank — the Economic Policy Institute — puzzling over how to pour two decades of newspaper experience into a new job of translating economic research and policy for a broad audience.